No land, no future - The dilemma facing rural youth in Indonesia


Local preservation: A ‘bissu’ (second left), a type of holy man or shaman in the Bugis culture, takes part in the Mappalili ceremony, paying tribute to the rice goddess to mark the start of the harvest season in Pangkajene, South Sulawesi. — AFP

EVERY morning, Indah, 18, wakes early to catch the company bus from her coastal village in Maros, South Sulawesi.

She travels for over one hour to a shrimp manufacturing warehouse in the urban outskirts of the provincial capital Makassar. Despite living in a rural village, she does not have any land to establish herself in farming.

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